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  • Cuban Film

Cinema: Just what the doctor ordered

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 09/07/202010/07/2020

The Havana Film Festival (also known as the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema)…

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  • Cuban Film

Cuban newsreels – a memory of the world

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 06/06/2020

This 6 June Cuba celebrated the 60th anniversary of its newsreels with film screenings on…

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  • Cuban Architecture

Cuban Natural and Cultural Heritage available to all in the fight against COVID-19 through culture

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 29/05/202017/07/2020

  Cuban artist and director of the Polymita Publishing House in Cuba, Julio A. Larramendi…

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  • News from Cuba

Singer from Bayamo Jose Alberto ‘the nightingale’ releases new song

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 29/05/202004/08/2020

Renowned Cuban music star José Alberto Tamayo Diaz a.k.a. “El Ruiseñor” (“nightingale”) releases his single  “Cualquiera…

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  • News from Cuba

“Becoming the antidote”: How artists in Cuba have played their part against Covid-19

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 16/05/202004/08/2020

Cuba’s cultural life seemed to be put on hold on 13 March due to threat…

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  • Cuban Music

Check out these 10 new Cuban music tracks and videos released during quarantine

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 13/05/202019/12/2020

Here are 10 diverse Cuban music tracks with videos, composed or released during this time…

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  • Cuban Art

Tamayo, art and the pandemic

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 11/04/202018/07/2020

Without abandoning his usual dose of humour, Cuban artist Reynerio Tamayo has been posting on…

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  • Cuban Music

Cuban musicians offer concerts from home online, on radio and television

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 03/04/202004/08/2020

With the suspension of cultural activities in Cuba, as part of efforts to stem the…

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  • Cuban Film

Juan Padron, comic creator of Elpidio Valdes

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 24/03/202018/07/2020

Juan Padrón was a Cuban animation director and comic artist, best known as the creator…

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  • News from Cuba

Cuban Government presents national program against racism and racial discrimination on TV

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 13/03/202030/06/2020

In November 2019 the Council of Ministers in Cuba approved a national program against racism…

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  • Cuban Film

National Film Award for Senel Paz, Strawberry & Chocolate screenwriter, and Francisco Prats

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 04/03/2020

Animation producer Francisco (Paco) Prats and screenwriter and professor Senel Paz have won the 2020…

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  • Cuban Art

Lesbia Vent Dumois wins Cuban National Visual Arts Prize

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 22/01/202021/08/2020

The Cuban painter and printmaker Lesbia Vent Dumois has won Cuba’s most prestigious annual visual…

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  • Cuban Dance

Carlos Acosta begins his new role as director of Birmingham Royal Ballet

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 15/01/202004/08/2020

In January 2020 Carlos began his first day at work as director of Birmingham Royal…

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  • News from Cuba

Gente de Zona and the Miami cultural blockade

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 30/12/2019

A week ago, the mayor of Miami, Francis Suarez, asked that Cuban musicians be excluded…

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  • Cuban Film

Cuban productions at the Havana Film Festival

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 11/12/201911/12/2019

This December 5-15 the annual International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana is…

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